NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-06-15

 From NPR news in Washington, I am WJ.

Police in Dallas has confirmed the death of a gunman who opened fire at his police headquarters early this morning. The suspect was killed during  fire in a suburban¹ parking lot.

At the location in Hutchins where the suspect's van is parked, our swat snipers shut up the engine block of the suspect vehicle with a 50 caliber² sniper rifle, disabling the man.

Dallas police chief David Brawn³.

Law enforcement officials said they found several explosive devices near the Dallas police headquarter's building. 

 

 

Hillary Clinton has been running for president for 2 months now, but she held her first big rally today. NPR's T reports from New York's R island.

The speech is heavy on policy, at times a little wonky and at other times quite personal.  As Clinton talked about learning perseverance⁴ from her mother who was on parents abandon her, Clinton's main teach. She said she is running to help all Americans get ahead.

It's going to be a long campaign and already she has get some criticism from those on the left for not talking enough about Wall Street reforming trade. 

 

 

President Obama is using his weekly address to convince House Democrats⁵ to change the rules on the bill they against him fast-track trade authority.  They rejected part of the bill yesterday.  NPR' S reports House republicans say a vote breaks up for another next week.

House democrats effectively denied president Obama fast-track authority to finalize⁶ trade talks involving a dozen countries around the pacific zone. Those trade talks are at the heart of president strategy to raise the US profile in the pacific.  A white house spokesman downplays the house phone as a temporary procedural problem and says the administartion will continue to pursuit fast-trade authority. 

 

 

A main hunt for two inmates⁷ who were escaped from a upstate NY prison is continuing. The search was temporarily called off due to heavy rains. The officials are now focusing on a rural area near the Kenladia border. A prison employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility was charged yesterday with smuggling⁸ tools to help the men escape. More then eight hundred officials have joint⁹ the search, that the two convicted murders broke out the prison 8 days ago. You are listening to NPR news in Washington.

1 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

2 caliber   

n.能力；水准

参考例句：

• They ought to win with players of such high caliber.他们选手的能力这样高,应该获胜。
• We are always trying to improve the caliber of our schools.我们一直在想方设法提高我们学校的水平。

3 brawn   

n.体力

参考例句：

• In this job you need both brains and brawn.做这份工作既劳神又费力。
• They relied on brains rather than brawn.他们靠的是脑力，而不是体力。

4 perseverance   

n.坚持不懈，不屈不挠

参考例句：

• It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
• Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。

5 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 finalize   

v.落实，定下来

参考例句：

• Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
• 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时，工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。

7 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

9 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。